Local time · Mandan
What time is it in Mandan, North Dakota?
3:50:24AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 24,788
- City proper
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About this clock
Mandan does not keep North Dakota's usual time
Most of North Dakota is on Central Standard Time, but Mandan keeps Central Standard Time — the same time as the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Mandan is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Mandan sits at 46.83°N, 100.89°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Mandan.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Mandan it is highest at 12:27 pm today — 27 minutes after clock noon.
At 100.9°W, Mandan sits 44 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 44 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Mandan today
- Sunrise
- 7:44 am
- Sunset
- 5:11 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 28 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 52 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 28 minutes in Mandan, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 21 minutes, from 15 hours 52 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 32 minutes in December.
At 46.8°N that puts Mandan between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.